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"kids these days and their craptainers. in my day we had ftp and cron and we liked it #getoffmylawn #oldsters

um, so I have two different accounts on https://t.co/Hcz0OwVPKF and can't get into either because it doesn't seem to recognize my email address or is not sending reset emails. Why can't they send to whichever email is assigned to the user id I need to fix?

So, I've been this computer thing for (checks watch) a while now, and you know what? People who write "do X better with 2 commands" articles need to actually annotate their shell command code snippets. Some of us don't have time to look up all those 14 options you used there.

@bitprophet Omg this is my life. Someone asked me today about an integration and I had to say in chat “call me cause this is going to take a while”. They were flabbergasted at the actual state of the legacy system and the hoops we had jumped through to integrate with it.

I think I’ve tried to get back into AWS several times in the last few years (trying again) and every time — every stupid time — it’s IAM management that makes me give up

RT @profdanhicks: “Sorry, but we’re still looking at it.”—@JamesAcastor on British museums and colonial theft https://t.co/J29S3rKXFX

@simonw So it has a... niche account?

None#FrozenII poked fun at the first film, and had an 80s power ballad, and ended with an orchestra-metal version of the “breakout” song.

Was it objectively good? I don’t think there is such a thing. But it did what it was designed to do, and then some!

You know what #FrozenII was good! Was it Scorsese good? Is Scorsese good? It was good for those girls dressed like Elsa coming out of the theater, it was good for my daughter.

RT @shawnfreebern: @steveivy @mathowie Compared to Eve & Wemo, the Lutron kit has been more reliable, responsive, faster. If you have excel…

@shawnfreebern @mathowie Great info, thanks!

@mathowie Why are the WiFi switches and dinners so much cheaper than the Lutron caseta devices? Is the Lutron way better or just overpriced I wonder...

Large companies, especially in regulated industries, have business requirements that can be hard to tease out, because they are hidden behind processes that were put in place many years ago to meet a regulatory requirement.

The actual requirement usually reads something like "track when an asset was purchased and how it was disposed of", but there is now a python client in front of a SOAP API in front of a batch process in front of a database table in front of a stored procedure...

So the ask that comes in is: "Automate putting this spreadsheet in this share for this person". Pushing for more info, the required spreadsheet goes to a batch process that used to be a form in some other system.

And that form - you might guess - used to be a paper form. That form existed so that auditors would have a (literal) paper trail to follow to establish that the organization was meeting regulatory requirements.

Year end, been thinking about my 5 years (and counting) working for a large enterprise, and am trying to put down some of the things I've learned into words.

in an Oracle database beneath a vendor's 20-year old product.

And each person involved each layer of that process acted in good faith to meet the need presented to them at the time.

So I've learned to ask questions, but avoid judging. Large companies are large, man.

Once more because I'm a dork, and in celebration of movies both old and new on Disney+ https://t.co/1Wg75MxYcf